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Skyrim Will Have Decaptitations, Personal Sex Slaves, and Drinking Contests

Posted on Thursday, September 22 @ 05:36:38 Eastern by


According to the ESRB description for The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, it will certainly live up to its newly assigned "M" rating. Not that this is a surprise, really, but we do have additional information as to just how far the game will go.

As players trek through the wilderness as Dovakin, who has the prophesied power to slay dragons with swords and spells, they will encounter battles that will go into slow-motion for "large blood-splatter effects" and decapitations, not unlike the V.A.T.S. close-ups in Bethesda's Fallout series. Several dungeons in particular will be adorned with "heads impaled on spikes" as well as "prisoners chained to a wall" as "they scream in pain amid splashes of blood or fire".

Dialogue will frequently have sexual material and will even be slurred in drinking contests:

As the game progresses, the dialogue and on-screen text contains references to sexual material (e.g., “. . . all the whores your heart, or any other organ, desires,” “She . . . raped the men as cruelly as Bal had ravished her,” and “Remember when you thought [he] was . . . intent on making you . . . into his personal sex slave?”). Alcohol such as wine, mead, and ale can be purchased and consumed by players' character throughout the game; and in one sequence, players can engage in a drinking contest with another character, which eventually results in slurred speech (e.g., “One more. No problemsh . . . Thash grape!”).

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  • cyberjim2000
    cyberjim2000

    Joined: Feb 2010
    Posted: Sep 22nd, 2011 at 6:34 am
    Decaptitations, personal sex slaves, and drinking contests? Well, ****. Now what are the modders going to mod?
  • Commiebot
    Commiebot

    Joined: Mar 2007
    Posted: Sep 22nd, 2011 at 12:18 pm
    The really sick stuff, like lovemaking between two consenting adults, marriage and maintaining a stable set of relationships.

    Oh, and inexplicably busty doe-eyed elf lolitas; the regular stuff.
  • mrallamericanboy
    mrallamericanboy

    Joined: Jun 2006
    Posted: Sep 22nd, 2011 at 6:36 am
    this game is goign to be so flippin awesome
  • Masterwabbit
    Masterwabbit

    Joined: Mar 2009
    Posted: Sep 22nd, 2011 at 9:26 am
    Oh look, another Bethesda game. Another decent storied, bugged up mess. I'll pass on th-

    *reads ESRB description*

    O_O

    YAY! Another Bethesda game! Another epic narrative, bug-free adventure! I'm sold!
  • tinymhg
    tinymhg

    Joined: Jun 2011
    Posted: Sep 22nd, 2011 at 12:16 pm
    I nominate masterwabbit to The People Speak. O_O
  • tinymhg
    tinymhg

    Joined: Jun 2011
    Posted: Sep 22nd, 2011 at 12:21 pm
    Personal sex slaves I’ll see it when I believe it.
  • De-Ting
    De-Ting

    Joined: Nov 2006
    Posted: Sep 22nd, 2011 at 12:36 pm
    Yeah, I'll believe all of this when I see it. There was decapitations and heads on spits in Oblivion too, so I think they're just using fancy wording hear.
  • De-Ting
    De-Ting

    Joined: Nov 2006
    Posted: Sep 22nd, 2011 at 2:42 pm
    *Ya hear?
  • tinymhg
    tinymhg

    Joined: Jun 2011
    Posted: Sep 22nd, 2011 at 9:07 pm
    Hear I yeah.
  • terijian
    terijian

    Joined: Sep 2011
    Posted: Sep 22nd, 2011 at 5:51 pm
    its ESRB they do their homework well.
    Sex slaves have been in all the tes games.
    the line “Remember when you thought [he] was . . . intent on making you . . . into his personal sex slave?”
    is from a book called withershins which was in morrowind and im pretty sure oblivion.

    Remember when you thought the royal battlemage of Black Marsh was hiding behind every tree with lewd intent, intent on making you -- a middle-aged, fat, balding tailor -- into his personal sex slave?
  • NickKmet
    NickKmet

    Joined: Jan 2007
    Posted: Sep 22nd, 2011 at 9:40 pm
    seconded.

    not spam.
  • NickKmet
    NickKmet

    Joined: Jan 2007
    Posted: Sep 22nd, 2011 at 9:41 pm
    ok, i was replying to tiny's nomination, and then it didn't. so, yeah.
  • tinymhg
    tinymhg

    Joined: Jun 2011
    Posted: Sep 22nd, 2011 at 10:31 pm
    The spam filter sucks!
  • drathbone
    drathbone

    Joined: May 2011
    Posted: Sep 23rd, 2011 at 2:29 am
    It's because when you submit a "spam" message, you have to hit reply again or it just adds it as a normal comment. Fuck you spam filter, whoever you may be.
  • drathbone
    drathbone

    Joined: May 2011
    Posted: Sep 23rd, 2011 at 2:30 am
    So when I'm drunk in RL playing Skyrim will the in game slurred drunk speech sound normal?

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